My sister’s keeper is the eleventh book written by the world renowned New York Times Best Seller, Jodi Piccoult and no doubt has captured the hearts of millions and still growing. With her fine instincts as a storyteller, Jodi Picoult has created a moving saga of a family faced with the inevitable loss of one of their own. This epic saga tells the story about the Fitzgeralds, a family united in their love for each other and also divided due to certain circumstances. But ultimately, it is a story of two sisters, the unbreakable bond they have and share and how totally entwined they have been all their lives until a crucial decision threatens to tear them apart and ends up changing their lives forever. The story begins with the perspective of the youngest child of the Fitzgeralds , Anna and what she thought about life. “When I was little, the great mystery to me wasn't how babies were made, but why. I was born for a very specific purpose. I wasn't the result of an accident; of a cheap bottle of wine or a full moon or the heat of the moment. I was born because a scientist managed to hook up my mother's eggs and my father's sperm and come up with a specific combination of precious genetic material. In fact, when Jesse told me how babies get made and I, the great disbeliever, decided to ask my parents the truth; I got more than I bargained for. They sat me down and told me all the usual stuff, of course —but they also explained that they chose little embryonic me, specifically, because I could save my sister Kate”

excerpt from my sisters keeper Anna Fitzgerald's older sister, Kate, suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow since the age of two. The rate of survival … is twenty to thirty percent, if treatment starts immediately." The treatments keep the disease at bay for about five years, until Kate's body explodes...

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